<p>I will end up taking 13. no lie. (judging by the number of 2400s, lets answer this straight. dont answer if ur gonna lie.</p>
<p>What are you asking exactly?</p>
<p>I believe she’ll be asking how many APs you’ve be taking in high school.</p>
<p>We’ve had like 50,000 threads about this on HSL.</p>
<p>i guess s/he asks how many aps to get into harvard.</p>
<p>There is absolutely no fixed amount and largely is dependent on the range of education opportunities available to the applicant.</p>
<p>I was asking how many APs to get into Harvard do average applicants take. I know that there is no min or max. But how many do most people take?</p>
<p>Between 18-24 to be a competent applicant.</p>
<p>I would estimate around 8 by the end of senior year or approximately 5 at the time of decisions.</p>
<p>Depends on the context of your school and the rules they have about taking APs. I’ll haven taken 8. Many schools don’t offer that many APs and Harvard takes that into account. </p>
<p>The number of APs you take isn’t that important, but the fact that you are academically challenging yourself. If they were important enough to sway admissions a lot why wouldn’t colleges ask for an official score report?</p>
<p>^Your last point is very true. It is rather the transcript that matters most.</p>
<p>I’ll have taken 18 by the time I graduate. A few of my classmates will have taken more – no joke.</p>
<p>As a current Harvard student, I will tell you that most people here have taken far fewer AP’s than that. For instance, I had four by the time I applied. I sincerely doubt that the number of AP’s is a significant factor in admission; and any relationship between # AP’s and % admitted is probably due to a crude correlation with a “effort/conscientiousness” variable rather than anything causal. If you’re looking to the AP program to get you into Harvard instead of all the other brilliant students who applied for that, you’re looking in the wrong direction.</p>
<p>I have two AP exams already taken: one for the only AP class I took, the other one I self-studied. A friend of mine, same high school, took only one AP and was accepted EA to Chicago.</p>
<p>On a rather unrelated note, are the self-reported AP scores on the common application important? because I didn’t see that one can also list “exams-to-be-taken” …should I bother sending in a note about the future AP exams I’m to take through the midyear report?</p>
<p>I will have taken 13 APs by the time I graduate (if all goes well)</p>
<p>But it doesn’t matter</p>
<p>I got deferred from both UofChicago and MIT EA : (</p>
<p>13 done and 5’d with 6-8 more coming down the pipe this year.</p>